Owen, Exposition of Psalm 130, 1749

A Practical Exposition on the CXXXth Psalm. Wherein The Nature of the Forgiveness of Sin is declared, the Truth and Reality of it asserted; AND The Case of a Soul distressed with the Guilt of Sin, and relieved by a Discovery of Forgiveness with God, is at large discoursed. By John Owen, D. D. Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Lumisden and Company, and sold at their Printing-house in the Fish-market-Closs. 1749. 
 
Original full brown leather with raised bands and red leather spine label. Boards and label scuffed. ¾ inch split at bottom of front joint. Small damp stain at foredge of front board. Book slight curve. Front flyleaf torn and adhered to front pastedown. Binding tight. Mild toning and scattered small stains. Focal worming at rear leaves, including advertisement leaf. 
Xvi, 398, (2) 
 
John Owen (1616-1683), called the “prince of English divines,” and the “leading figure among the Congregationalist divines,” was the second son of a Puritan vicar. He is regarded as “a genius with learning second only to Calvin’s,” and “indisputably the leading proponent of high Calvinism in England in the late seventeenth century.” He entered Queens college at 12 years old, and studied the classics, mathematics, philosophy, theology, Hebrew, and rabbinical writings—attaining his BA in 1632 and MA in 1635. In his teen years he is said to have studied 18 to 22 hours per day. He wrote his Exposition of Psalm 13 while preaching in London after the Plague and the Great Fire. (Beeke, pg 455)